Welcome to Year 3
Hello and welcome to Year 3.
Year 3 is an exciting time for everyone as the journey through Key Stage 2 begins and the children really develop the skills of independent learning. We will, of course, be having lots of fun along the way.
Throughout the year we will be exploring many exciting, engaging and interesting cross-curricular topics which include: ‘Roots and Shoots’, Extreme Earth’, ‘Mighty Metals’, ‘Stone Age – Tribal Tales’, ‘Funny Bones’ and ‘Groovy Greeks’.
Some of the topics will have a Creative Homework project linked to them, giving the children the opportunity to showcase their interests, strengths and talents.
Regular reading at home, will reinforce the skills developed at school in order to ensure that children enjoy and understand the texts that they read. It is expected that children read at least 3 times a week at home.
Please ensure PE kits and water bottles are in school.
Mr Rich and Mrs Comins and the children promise to work hard, so that we are all able to be the best we can be!
Keep checking out our page to see what we get up to!
Class Updates
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Riddle research
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/plants/cactus.html
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ROOTS and SHOOTS topic launch
To launch our topic of ‘Roots and Shoots’ Year 3 looked at the artist Andy Goldsworthy. Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental artist. This means that he creates art using materials from the natural environment. Take a look at the children’s inspired pieces. Year 3 showed great enthusiasm and...
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Year 2 Word Wall
https://wordwall.net/resource/77353/english/sorting-nounsverbsadjectives https://wordwall.net/resource/44942/english/word-types-sorting
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Spelling Shed
https://play.spellingshed.com/ Dear Parent / Carer, Abbey Gates would like your child to use the Spelling Shed system as part of their school work. The Spelling Shed helps children to practise spelling via a simple game. The game gives four different degrees of support in the form of difficulty...
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JWS Multi skills festival
Last week we visited Joseph Whitaker school for a multi skills festival. We practised our balancing skills, ball skills and team game skills. Lots of fun was had by all!
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Nature Superheroes
During "Welly Wednesday" we collected leaves and made masks for nature heroes. We looked online to explore the nature trust and find out about how they protect our environment and our wildlife.
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Superheroes!!
We launched our topic with a superhero dress up day. We practised our skills on the iPad by taking pictures of each other in different superhero poses.
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Fabulous Fireworks
This week we used music and ribbons to create a firework dance. We built a bonfire with leaves and twigs and danced around it, using high and low movements, twirls and jumps. Finally we added music to make the sounds of different fireworks and made our movements match the sounds....
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Teddy Bear Picnic
To celebrate the end of our memory box topic, we invited our teddy bears to an extra special picnic. We designed, made and evaluated a range of sandwiches and played circle games. We had a fabulous day.... we think our teddy bears did too!
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The Wild West
Foundation have loved learning about The Wild West. They have been visited by Cowgirls on their horses and Sheriff Kelvin and have made their own tepees and dreamcatchers!
Notice Board
Most recent Class Pages
- Abbey Gates ‘Virtual’ Summer Fair (PTA, Whole School)
- Year Six Online Art Gallery (Year 6, Whole School, Art Studio)
- Year 3/4 Athletics Final (Year 3, Year 4)
- Digestive system t-shirts and edible poo making! (Year 4)
- Creswell Crags - Stone Age (Year 3)
- Towering High (Year 5)
- Antony Gormley inspired Iron Man Sculpture (Year 3)
- D&T: Levers (Year 3)
- Touch Typing (Year 3)
- Tendayi Darikwa Inspirational Visit (Whole School)